Iraq War 2003
(Redirected from Selling the US war of aggression against Iraq in 2003)
Contents
The Oil Factor
Documents & Doctrines
- The Bush Doctrine
- National Intelligence Estimate
- One Percent Doctrine
- A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm
- Coping with Crumbling States: A Western and Israeli Balance of Power Strategy for the Levant
Key Players
The Executive
Vice President's Office
Department of Defense
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Paul Wolfowitz
- Office of Special Plans
- Office of Strategic Influence
- Information Operations Task Force
- Policy Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group
- Office of Net Assessment
Department of State
National Security Council
Defence Policy Board
The Legislative
Civil Society
Think Tanks
- Project for the New American Century
- American Enterprise Institute
- Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
- Center for Security Policy
- Saban Center for Middle East Policy
Citizens and Pressure Groups
Multilatera
Media
Publications and pundits
- Jeffrey Goldberg - New Yorker
- David Rose - Vanity Fair, The Observer
- New York Times
- Judith Miller
- Thomas Friedman
- Kenneth M. Pollack
- Michael Gordon
- Washington Post
- Weekly Standard
- Fox News
PR
Iraqi Exiles
External Resources
- James Bamford, Iran: The Next War, Rolling Stone, August 10 2006
- David Miller (ed.), Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq], Pluto Press 2004.
- Seymour Hersh, Selective Intelligence, New Yorker, 12 May 2003
- Paul de Rooij, A Riposte to Gen. Powell: Where are the Incubators?, CounterPunch, 6 Feb. 2003. (curious element of this article is that it was published in CounterPunch two hours after the infamous speech)
- Paul de Rooij, Arrogant Propaganda: US Propaganda During the First 10 Days of the Iraq War, CounterPunch, 31 March 2003.
- Paul de Rooij, The Hydra's New Head: Propagandists and Selling the US-Iraq War, CounterPunch, 14 May 2003
Videos
- The Fifth Estate: The Lies That Led To War, CBC, 7 March 2007
